Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread

[leaked_version 10,499]

Agreed.

 

What upsets me is that there are other artists who are lazy (or at the very least, ill-prepared) like Lana is, but their management makes up for it. I wonder why Lana's team doesn't seem to put that much effort, if any, at their job? 

 

Ben and Ed have dicked around Elle and Lanaboards more than they've actually worked at managing her this era.

I am just stunned that every time we have a new album, it seems like it always ends up in a big mess. It started with Paradise and here we are now almost five years and three albums later and it is happening again. There is zero focus and no vision at all.

[Ultra Violet 18,461]

I am just stunned that every time we have a new album, it seems like it always ends up in a big mess. It started with Paradise and here we are now almost five years and three albums later and it is happening again. There is zero focus and no vision at all.

I wasn't here during Paradise, what happened?

[issgouding 1,428]

i hope she puts the preorder up tomorow with ''cherry wine'' 

[Limelight 4,697]

I wasn't here during Paradise, what happened?

No info for a long time and then the messy album didn't leak until a couple of days before the release or something like that

 

[leaked_version 10,499]

I wasn't here during Paradise, what happened?

Well, at first Interscope hated Ride and it was openly discussed with Lana. Then after a few tv performances in Europe, there was no follow up to Ride til Tropico came out way too late and it was recieved pretty badly. Lana wanted Cola as the second single but unsurprisingly and for understandable reasons, Universal never wanted the song as a single. The fact that Universal even agreed to do Tropico is truly a mystery. She also never hired Mandler after Tropico again.

[baddisease 16,015]

I am just stunned that every time we have a new album, it seems like it always ends up in a big mess. It started with Paradise and here we are now almost five years and three albums later and it is happening again. There is zero focus and no vision at all.

 

Paradise was a mess? I don't remember it being one.

 

Ultraviolence was the biggest mess to me, only because Lana completely abandoned that album for reasons that I still don't know. But Lust For Life is about to lap it.

[subversive light 3,508]

Sorry for derailing this thread but it's not like anything important is happening 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'd puke, no thank you for that kind of fish (never again)

 

OH MY GOD LMAO

[Stargirl 13,348]

Ultraviolence was the first release I really followed online and it was so controversial at first, which I think people forget because it's so appreciated now But people had seriously mixed feelings about her changing up her image, the fucking Ultraviolence orange video, "vice is running shit", the trailer that was amazing but that we hardly got content for. I even remember some people freaking out about the audio video for West Coast because people thought the entire video would just be her spinning on loop   It ended up being The Album of the summer in 2014 for me though and we were all blessed but it was definitely a mess. 

[ultrababy 3,445]

its 2:25 am here and i'm currently listening to cruel world

[Stargirl 13,348]

its 2:25 am here and i'm currently listening to cruel world

don't forget to let the light in

[leaked_version 10,499]

It's not about the quality guys, the quality has always been there, sometimes it was more approachable than other times, but always out of question. I am following Lana since 2011 and how her releases get executed is for the most part, a big, big, GIANT mess. 

 

It is quite disrespectful towards the actual material, but also towards her fans sometimes. I mean, something like that can happen once. That would be okay, even a second time might be understandable. But four times in a row, I wonder if they never think about it that it actually costs them more money in the end than what they get out of it.

 

It is just disappointing overall. 

[Kommander 3,260]

Well, at first Interscope hated Ride and it was openly discussed with Lana. Then after a few tv performances in Europe, there was no follow up to Ride til Tropico came out way too late and it was recieved pretty badly. Lana wanted Cola as the second single but unsurprisingly and for understandable reasons, Universal never wanted the song as a single. The fact that Universal even agreed to do Tropico is truly a mystery. She also never hired Mandler after Tropico again.

 

They didn't want Cola as a single but they gave her money for Tropico ?

[leaked_version 10,499]

They didn't want Cola as a single but they gave her money for Tropico ?

Well, I mean, I get why they didn't want it for a single, it's obvious. And they agreed to pay for Tropico, but it was just not finished in time, it was months late. I mean MONTHS, not just a week or two. And then, they even gave her money for the big  release party and all. I wonder what they were thinking. It would have been way cheaper to make a video for G&M and just call it a day. Or to simply make another song off BTD a single with a proper video like Radio or Diet Mtn Dew

[Amadeus 11,293]

They didn't want Cola as a single but they gave her money for Tropico ?

They probably thought one of the songs will do well after the tropico push, body electric had a short and really weird momentum after they released it but nothing major.

 

I really don't understand their approach for this album. They funded 2-3 music videos in advance, booked her a hand full of festivals and scheduled nothing but 2 radio premiers for the first two singles. that's basically all they did, now they most likely postponed the whole project because they finally came to the realisation that it won't bring them enough money to even cover for the cost of it.

Knowing what the people responsible are capable of I don't even think there's gonna be something done in these two months, maybe they'll book another festival, a magazine cover, pay for more adds on instagram and hope it's gonna sell twice as much.

[Tragic Rabbit 3,355]

Anthony Mandler was pretty awesome, by the way. Lana's music vids with him were like short art films. Now they're all without storyline. Probably because the lyrical content is different now.

[lanawolf 92]

okay not to bring up "cherry" not being the song name again but one of the dancers reposted the insta vid with the cherry and wine emojis........ is it called cherries and wine like the lyric???

[Tragic Rabbit 3,355]

Well, I mean, I get why they didn't want it for a single, it's obvious. And they agreed to pay for Tropico, but it was just not finished in time, it was months late. I mean MONTHS, not just a week or two. And then, they even gave her money for the big release party and all. I wonder what they were thinking. It would have been way cheaper to make a video for G&M and just call it a day. Or to simply make another song off BTD a single with a proper video like Radio or Diet Mtn Dew

Well, that explains why the Ultraviolence & Honeymoon videos had such low budgets, compared to BTD & Paradise.

[HunterSThompson 4,644]

okay not to bring up "cherry" not being the song name again but one of the dancers reposted the insta vid with the cherry and wine emojis........ is it called cherries and wine like the lyric???

We don't know sis.... the song isn't out and hasn't been mentioned prior to the Instagram video. We can only speculate, per usual. I'm gonna guess it's called Cherries & Wine because it sounds like a Lana title

[lanawolf 92]

We don't know sis.... the song isn't out and hasn't been mentioned prior to the Instagram video. We can only speculate, per usual. I'm gonna guess it's called Cherries & Wine because it sounds like a Lana title

 

i just doubt she'd make it just cherry... like she already has just cola, and cherry could get confused for cherry blossom idk maybe i'm reaching i was just surprised by the emojis on the dancer's repost

[Terrence Loves Me 71,796]

I really want her to announce a date so that i can actually start getting excited. I want something to look forward to and i can't and it really bugs me. It'll be tragic if i got really excited for May 26th and then nothing happens on the day. I'd be crushed.

 

Lana pleeeeeease just give us a GODDAMN date will you